iPic Theaters, a luxury movie theater with a full-service bar and an Italian restaurant, will open in Westwood on Friday. The Florida-based movie-theater company will open a location in the former AMC Avco 4 movie theater location on Wilshire Boulevard. Read more...
Photo: iPic Theaters will open Friday in Westwood Village on Wilshire Boulevard between Westwood Boulevard and Malcolm Avenue. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
The late afternoon sunlight caught the glint of lacquer fountain pens and signature greeting cards in one of Westwood’s oldest family businesses. Flax Pen to Paper, originally named M. Read more...
Photo: Joan Flax and Philip Clark run their family business, Flax Pen to Paper, on Gayley Avenue. (Sonja Bartlett/Daily Bruin)
Westwood Boulevard is one of 15 streets Mayor Eric Garcetti hopes to renovate and improve economically as part of his Great Streets initiative. With the plan, Garcetti said he aims to bring new businesses into neighborhoods, help current ones expand and make neighborhoods accessible to pedestrians as well as cars. Read more...
Photo: Westwood Boulevard is one of the streets that Mayor Eric Garcetti plans to improve as part of his Great Streets Initiative. (Jennifer Lin/Daily Bruin)
John Sungkamee struggled to adapt to his new surroundings when he first arrived in the U.S. from southern Thailand more than 20 years ago. It was his start working in restaurants that taught him how to interact with customers and gave him insight into how the business operated, he said. Read more...
Photo: At the Emporium Thai Cuisine on Westwood Boulevard, siblings from the Sungkamee family cook up Southern Thai specialties. The restaurant is well-known for its one-to-10 spiciness rating scale. The Sungkamee family, which immigrated to America by chance, specializes in the food business. (Evaneet Sidhu/Daily Bruin)
Westwood Village will soon be home to the first Los Angeles franchise of the popular Midwestern sandwich chain Jimmy John’s. The restaurant will open in August in a vacant space on Westwood Boulevard next to D’Amore’s Pizza, just north of Lindbrook Drive, said Rick Chancellor, western region vice president for the McDevitt Company. Read more...
Four Democrats, one Republican and two Independents have announced they are vying for the Congressional seat that oversees UCLA’s district. The Rothenberg Political Report, which rates the degree of certainty that one political party will win a seat, rated the district of Rep. Read more...
Photo: Courtesy of Marianne Williamson
Westwood’s sixth Bruin’s Night Out event will take place Wednesday night, with more than 40 deals or discounts for UCLA students and a free premier screening of the new season of the television series “Game of Thrones.” The event, which was first held in 2011, will organized by the Westwood Community Council, the undergraduate student government’s Campus Events Commission and General Representative 1 office and, for the first time, HBO. Read more...
Photo: For the first time since Bruins Night Out was started three years ago, a TV show, “Game of Thrones,” will screen a preview showing during the event. (Daily Bruin file photo)
